Re: [users@httpd] CGI Timeouts?

[Steve Swift]

> But apache won't (can't!) kill the process that's looping...

The operating system is Linux. The separate threads are spawned as "apache" (in our case) but there is still the root process running httpd - that should have no problems killing of looping CGI processes, if it wanted to.

However, I'll accept that "It cannot be done" and continue monitoring for looping apache processes.

If I get motivated I could probably write a cron task to inspect the /server-status webpage every two minutes and to kill off any thread that seems to be hogging the system.

--
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk